Comments on: 80% Won’t Be Fixed? http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/130 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:55:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shawn Wilsher http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/130/comment-page-1#comment-2469 Shawn Wilsher Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:35:20 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/130#comment-2469 @Fred Maybe we should change all instances of bug to task :p @Fred

Maybe we should change all instances of bug to task :p

]]> By: Fred http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/130/comment-page-1#comment-2468 Fred Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:52:12 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/130#comment-2468 Sadly, the word "bug" has long become associated with "software error" even though the Mozilla notion of "bug" is "task", which covers everything from suggestion over "don't forget" to an actual error. There is software out there that uses "task" instead of "bug" to avoid this confusion. I like the word "bug" but obviously it is prone to misunderstandings, resulting in people like the NYT writer assuming exceptionally bad software quality behind everything that mentions this word. :( Sadly, the word “bug” has long become associated with “software error” even though the Mozilla notion of “bug” is “task”, which covers everything from suggestion over “don’t forget” to an actual error.

There is software out there that uses “task” instead of “bug” to avoid this confusion.

I like the word “bug” but obviously it is prone to misunderstandings, resulting in people like the NYT writer assuming exceptionally bad software quality behind everything that mentions this word. :(

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